Group 4

To summarize the discussion, we raised the question of why is it neccessary for the creation and bastardization of new idols (whether religious, political, social, et al)? We seemed to answer our own question with the a seemingly clear answer of Profit. While in the short-term people do profit from the immediate gratification, found in believing one has acheived some sort of answer, and higher-ups profit in dollars and control of social power and status. The long-term effects of this way of thinking for population of our scale certainly are more harmful than productive; however, coincidentally enough, none of us could find one common answer to combat the issues. This absence of an "answer" or even "secret" to combat the "Secret" seems necessary, since there can be no one route, but it becomes even more problematic, since there are certainly some things that need to be fixed.

*Any delay on this was because I wasn't certain if we were required to post the discussions (there were no other posts until today)... I did post my own thoughts in a previous post, which stemmed from our discussion.